What matters is how you feel about the finished product. Why go for authenticity if it makes you miss the deadline?
About tabs: the skirt's normally separate to the bodice, worn over the tabs and under the front point, so they don't much show in paintings. If you're not sewing the skirt to the bodice you'll want to add hooks and eyes to make sure they stay together!
That's a great painting! What's the title/artist? You're right, though this is 10-20 years earlier it's still helpful. And as you said, English fashion was between the comfort and modesty of the Dutch and the style and ostentation of the French, with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in. So pretty much like now, really!
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Date: 2009-07-21 03:58 pm (UTC)About tabs: the skirt's normally separate to the bodice, worn over the tabs and under the front point, so they don't much show in paintings. If you're not sewing the skirt to the bodice you'll want to add hooks and eyes to make sure they stay together!
That's a great painting! What's the title/artist? You're right, though this is 10-20 years earlier it's still helpful. And as you said, English fashion was between the comfort and modesty of the Dutch and the style and ostentation of the French, with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in. So pretty much like now, really!